Entering passwords for email accounts in Thunderbird - Mozilla

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In trying to configure Thunderbird to go to my web host mail servers to
get me email, I could not see any where Account Settings on any of ...

Entering passwords for email accounts in Thunderbird

I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 installed on a pc running Windows Vista PC.
In trying to configure Thunderbird to go to my web host mail servers to
get me email, I could not see any where Account Settings on any of the
tabs to enter the password for the email account. Where will I find these?
Nick

Re: Entering passwords for email accounts in Thunderbird

Jekyll wrote:
> I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 installed on a pc running Windows Vista PC.
> In trying to configure Thunderbird to go to my web host mail servers to
> get me email, I could not see any where Account Settings on any of the
> tabs to enter the password for the email account. Where will I find these?
> Nick

Once you've created the account, and (attempted to) retrieve email,
Thunderbird will prompt you for a username and/or password for email
access.
There's a checkbox to remember the info so you don't have to enter it
every time.
After you've done all this successfully, you will find the usernames and
passwords under Tools>Options>Privacy>Passwords.afaik, there isn't an option to set username and password before you
connect to the mailserver.

Re: Entering passwords for email accounts in Thunderbird

clay wrote:
> Jekyll wrote:
>> I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 installed on a pc running Windows Vista
>> PC. In trying to configure Thunderbird to go to my web host mail
>> servers to get me email, I could not see any where Account Settings on
>> any of the tabs to enter the password for the email account. Where
>> will I find these?
>> Nick
>
> Once you've created the account, and (attempted to) retrieve email,
> Thunderbird will prompt you for a username and/or password for email
> access.
> There's a checkbox to remember the info so you don't have to enter it
> every time.
> After you've done all this successfully, you will find the usernames and
> passwords under Tools>Options>Privacy>Passwords.
> afaik, there isn't an option to set username and password before you
> connect to the mailserver.
Thanks for taking time to reply. I just found that the email server name
is so new, it hadn't propagated on internet. When I used IP address
instead of name, everything went as it should with Thunderbird asking
for password as you say above.
Thanks!